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Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... around to pay you back. Just from a common sense view of it, governments that look after their people and have high standards in governance, high standards in environmental issues and high standards in social and sustainability issues, they're not likely ...

Corporate sustainability commitments rise, CSR action lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... four areas covered under the Global Compact's principles, companies are taking action on the environment and on labour standards at the highest rates. Anti-corruption efforts have increased steadily for two consecutive years, but human rights action ...

Report: US$174bn global market for climate-themed bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets and the Carbon Disclosure Project, has developed the International Standards and Certification Scheme for Climate Bonds, which is aimed at facilitate the development and use of climate bonds through a ...

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... disclosed 86% and 90% of the time respectively across all sectors. The least widely protected labour and human rights standards are those for child labour and forced labour, achieving average disclosure of 14% and 13% respectively. Many companies did ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... companies within the sector, Carlsson-Sweeny said. In particular, the AMP Capital report highlighted a poor focus on ethical standards and codes of conduct for staff among listed media companies. The lack of ethical codes can result in financial impacts ...

Perpetual to extend ESG dashboard to fixed income space

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... develop one page reports on the ESG risks and opportunities of 240-270 ASX-listed stocks that potentially meet the firm's standards for investment. Thus far, about 15 reports have been written and the analysts have started using those reports, said Pablo ...

QIC selects Molpus Woodlands Group for timber mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... set out to find the most environmentally sound manger per se - we set out to find a manager who does something to our standards. If the operator doesn't have the right environmental standards, they're out.... We don't accept manager that cut into old ...

International human rights law impacts Australian companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... respect for human rights, there are a variety of approaches in various jurisdictions and an overarching voluntary set of standards as set out in the - the so-called Ruggie Framework, otherwise known as the The UN Business and Human Rights "Protect, Respect ...

GRESB joins forces with GRI to push sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... standardisation, the GRESB/GRI arrangement is aimed at making the real estate sector among the top-three industries with high standards on sustainability performance within the next three years. GRI has published the Construction and Real Estate Sector ...

Santos identifies 24 material sustainability indicators

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability report. "I am committed to meeting or exceeding the highest legislative, ethical, environmental and social standards - it is both the right thing to do and will help us deliver our projects on time and on budget." Ahead of the July 1 start ...